The Stanley Baum Professorship of Radiology

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Established by the University in 2001, the Professorship is awarded to an outstanding tenured professor in the Department of Radiology in the Perelman School of Medicine.

A medical pioneer, Stanley Baum, MD was one of the first interventional radiologists in the U.S. While Chair of the Department of Radiology from 1975 to 1996, he contributed to the development of magnetic resonance imaging and initiated the first hospital-based magneticresonance imaging program in the nation. His research led to the non-operative treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding. He was Founder and first President of the Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology and played a critical role in the formation of a medical imaging institute at the National Institutes of Health.

Among his many honors, Dr. Baum received gold medals from the Radiological Society of North America, the Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Association of University Radiologists, the American College of Radiology, the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology, and the Academy of Radiologic Research, and election to the NIH.

In October 2022, at the age of 92, Dr. Baum passed away from pancreatic cancer. A beautiful tribute to his impact on medicine and beyond was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and can be read here.

scott o trerotolaCurrent Chairholder
Scott O. Trerotola, MD

Scott O. Trerotola, MD is the Stanley Baum Professor of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Interventional Radiology, and Vice Chair, Quality, of the Department of Radiology at Penn Medicine.

A strong advocate of research in interventional radiology and evidence-based practice, Dr. Trerotola’s more than 250 research and educational publications include multiple prospective randomized trials. In 2010, Dr. Trerotola received the Perelman School’s Louis Duhring Outstanding Clinical Specialist Award, reflecting peer recognition of interventional radiology’s strong clinical thrust.

Dr. Trerotola has appeared frequently in Philadelphia Magazine’s “Top Docs” issue and America’s Top Doctors: A Castle Connolly Guide. He is the Society of Interventional Radiology’s (SIR) 2016 Dr. Charles T. Dotter Lecturer and was the 2011 recipient of the SIR Foundation’s Leaders in Innovation Award. He holds eight patents on devices for interventional procedures.